Flag Day 2019

Flag Day, also called National Flag Day, in the United States, is a day
honoring the adoption of the national flag. It commemorates the date in 1777
when Congress approved the design for the first national flag.

The idea for a holiday to honor the national flag was proposed by a Bernard J.
Cigrand, a schoolteacher, in 1855. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a
proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day and in August 1949,
National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress.